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  • Derrida and Law

    Justice and the Violence of Legality

    Edited by Peter Goodrich, Anselm Haverkamp, Avital Ronell ...
    Series series Discourses of Law
    This book brings together an interdisciplinary range of scholars from across the spectrum of disciplines, generations, and geopolitical divides to revisit Jacques Derrida’s account of law, violence, and justice.Deconstruction is variously a philosophy of aporia, a method of patience, a practice of paradoxes, an ontography of uncertainty, a hermeneutics of escalation that sought not only to ... Read more

    $57.99 USD

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  • Henry the Steinway and the Piano Recital

    by Sally Coveleskie, Peter Goodrich ...
    Illustrated by Laura Friedman ...
    A heartwarming tale of music, friendship, and believing in yourself!Spring is in the air, but young Ana is dreading her piano recital. She can't seem to get the notes right! Then, one day, the grand piano winks and smiles. It's Henry the Steinway, ready to help Ana find the music within her heart.Will Henry's lessons and friendship be enough to help Ana overcome her stage fright and shine at the ... Read more

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  • Genealogies of Legal Vision

    Edited by Peter Goodrich, Valérie Hayaert ...
    Series series Discourses of Law
    It was the classical task of legal rhetoric to make law both seen and understood. These conjoint goals came to be separated and opposed in modernity and a degree of blindness ensued. Legal reason was increasingly deemed to be a purely textual enterprise. Against this constraint and in furtherance of an incipient visual turn in legal studies, Genealogies of Legal Vision seeks to revive the ... Read more

    $66.99 USD

  • Performing Law

    Actors, Affects, Spaces

    Edited by Peter Goodrich, Anna Jayne Kimmel, Bernadette Meyler ...
    Series series Law in Context
    The words 'all rise' announce the appearance of the judge in the thespian space of the courtroom and trigger the beginning of that play we call a trial. The symbolically staged enactment of conflict in the form of litigation is exemplary of legal action, its liturgical and real effects. It establishes the roles and discourses, hierarchy and deference, atmospheres and affects that are to be taken ... Read more

    $36.89 USD

  • Nietzsche and Legal Theory

    Half-Written Laws

    by Peter Goodrich, Mariana Valverde ...
    Series series Discourses of Law
    Nietzsche and Legal Theory is an anthology designed to provide legal and socio-legal scholars with a sense of the very wide range of projects and questions in whose pursuit Nietzsche's work can be useful. From medical ethics to criminology, from the systemic anti-Semitism of legal codes arising in Christian cultures, to the details of intellectual property debates about regulating the use of ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • Law, Ethics, and the Office of the Jurist

    Edited by Peter Goodrich, Shaun Mcveigh ...
    Series series Discourses of Law
    The genealogy of legal office is pieced together here to rediscover the scope and ambition of a role that has been largely lost to conscious self-reflection. Organized around a concern with the inheritance of juristic traditions, institutions, and forms of life, the contributors to this book take up the question of how a jurist might learn to live, or die, with law. The collection invites readers ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Judicial Uses of Images

    Vision in Decision

    by Prof Peter Goodrich ...
    Series series Law and Literature
    A judge springs out of his car on the way to court in downtown Chicago and takes photographs of an inflatable rat. A while later he inserts these photographs into a decision involving another insufflated rodent used in a union protest. The increasing use of images in case law and precedent in the common law world provides a novel visual atlas of how lawyers see. Using a corpus of many images drawn ... Read more

    $85.49 USD

  • The Cabinet of Imaginary Laws

    Edited by Peter Goodrich, Thanos Zartaloudis ...
    Series series Discourses of Law
    Returning to the map of the island of utopia, this book provides a contemporary, inventive, addition to the long history of legal fictions and juristic phantasms. Progressive legal and political thinking has for long lacked a positive, let alone a bold imaginary project, an account of what improved institutions and an ameliorated environment would look like. And where better to start than with the ... Read more

    $55.99 USD

  • Law in the Courts of Love

    Literature and Other Minor Jurisprudences

    by Peter Goodrich ...
    Law in the Courts of Love traces the literary history and diversity of past legal systems. These 'minor jurisprudences' range from the spiritual laws of the courts of conscience to the code and judgements of love handed down by women's courts in medieval France. Professor Goodrich presents the 15th Century Courts of Love in Paris as one instance of an alternative jurisdiction drawn from the ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

  • Law and the Postmodern Mind

    Essays on Psychoanalysis and Jurisprudence

    Edited by Peter Goodrich, David Gray Carlson ...
    Series series Law, Meaning, And Violence
    David Gray Carlson and Peter Goodrich argue that the postmodern legal mind can be characterized as having shifted the focus of legal analysis away from the modernist understanding of law as a system that is unitary and separate from other aspects of culture and society. In exploring the various "other dimensions" of law, scholars have developed alternative species of legal analysis and recognized ... Read more

    $53.99 USD

  • Law, Text, Terror

    Edited by Peter Goodrich, Lior Barshack, Anton Schutz ...
    The essays collected here under the governing signs, Law, Text, Terror have their origins in a singular and topical desire. Their motive is most immediately that of acknowledging the massive and eccentric contribution of the philologist, psychoanalyst and Romanist jurist Pierre Legendre to the study of legal institutions and juridical practices. He has unceasingly asked the question 'why law?' and ... Read more

    $87.99 USD

  • Laws of Transgression

    The Return of Judge Schreber

    Edited by Peter Goodrich, Katrin Trüstedt ...
    Laws of Transgression offers multiple perspectives on the story of Daniel Paul Schreber (1842–1911), a chamber president of the German Supreme Court who was institutionalized after claiming God had communicated with him, desiring to make him into a woman. Schreber was not only a successful judge, but was also to become the author of one of the most commented upon texts in psychiatric literature, ... Read more

    $53.99 USD